Great Lakes - Road Routes around Dearborn, Michigan

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Motorad
08-04-07, 11:18 AM
Trying to find routes for taking round trips from my home in Melvindale, to make 20 mile rides after 8:00 PM when it's cool.

Melvindale is in Southeast MI, in Wayne County. The township was once a segment (so was Allen Park) of Dearborn, but is now a small township.

With head-light and tail-light in tow, I'm wondering of good (traffic-safe) road routes to ride from Melvindale and within the Dearborn area in the evenings.

How can I get generic road maps of the Dearborn Michigan area that can be carried on my bike?

How can I get specific road maps for the Dearborn area ... and the Hines Drive area ... with Melvindale as the starting point?


Motorad
08-04-07, 11:19 AM
Here's a map of my starting point of Melvindale:
http://image.maps.yahoo.com/mapimage?MAPDATA=i511COd6wXWsXy4MQ0rC36KMeCbyaknP6kcsRd0scRhM2N_sN_3o9L9ujgOTAe3l1WCpzYeQ8b4_3bsIn2w iNoOp3xjYaQgZfTo47CnAhXIxwC4vFlGmsGWXZcWwDJhhWbD38lR2YQYUfHi2f5fNUoD6n3q5cQ--

hines drive
08-04-07, 03:16 PM
You should be able to pick up Outer Drive in Melvindale, and take it all the way to Hines Drive.

I'm a newbie, so take this with a grain of salt, but as much as I love riding around here, I get the hell off the roads around after dark.